' Refinement '...

Whether it be in the forms of art, music, poetry, literature, or those of living, dress, behaviour, manners, or speech, the quality of a person reveals himself in his coarseness or refinement. By that I mean whether he is or is not on the quest which is after all an attempt to refine ourselves from materialism to spirituality and therefore from low quality thoughts and feelings to higher and nobler ones. ................. — Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5: Spiritual Refinement > # 200........Paul Brunton